Seminars
2024 BEES Seminars
| TERM 1 | ||||
Date |
Time & location |
Speaker |
Title |
Host |
| Thurs 15 Feb 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Mathews D | Adam Roff | Trees Near Me & Wildlife Drone Hub NSW | Hosted by BEES |
| Thurs 22 Feb 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Mathews D | Simon Hart | How intraspecific variation, phenotypic plasticity, and rapid evolution influence the maintenance of species diversity. | Hosted by E&ERC |
| Thurs 29 Feb 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Mathews D | Jon Daly | Securing coral reef biodiversity with cryopreservation and biobanking | Hosted by CMSI |
| Tues 5 March 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, E19 Patricia O'Shane G02 (previously CLB 1) | Giancarlo Chiarenza and Rebecca Raynal | E&ERC Exit Seminars | Hosted by E&ERC |
| Thurs 7 March 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Mathews D | Andrew Glikson | Geophysical evidence for the largest known impact structure on Earth, and related glaciation and mass extinction | Hosted by BEES |
| Thurs 14 March 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Mathews D | Suz Everingham | Quantifying the effects of global change drivers on plant-consumer interactions | Hosted by E&ERC |
| Thurs 4 April 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Mathews D | Nathali Machado de Lima | Harnessing Soil Microbial-Based Strategies and Seed Enhancement Technologies for Biodiversity Restoration and Environmental Health Monitoring | Hosted by BEES |
| Thurs 11 April 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Mathews D | Juliette Tariel-Adam | Transgenerational plasticity as a mechanism to adapt to a variable environment? | Hosted by E&ERC |
| Thurs 18 April 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Mathews D | Toby Tucker | The Clybucca Wetlands: An engineering approach to wetland restoration | Hosted by CMSI |
| Thurs 2 May 2024 | Postgraduate Research Forum | Hosted by BEES | ||
| Thurs 9 May 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, AGSM Boral Theatre | Stephen Bonser | TBC | Hosted by E&ERC |
| Thurs 16 May 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, AGSM Boral Theatre |
TBC | TBC | Hosted by CMSI |
| TERM 2 | ||||
| Thurs 30 May 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Location TBC | Tom Le Breton & Alex Thomsen | TBC | Hosted by BEES |
| Thurs 13 June 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Location TBC | Adam Frew | TBC | Hosted by E&ERC |
| Thurs 20 June 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Location TBC |
Christopher Cvitanovic | TBC | Hosted by CMSI |
| Thurs 27 June 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Location TBC | Ben Walker | TBC | Hosted by BEES |
| Thurs 4 July 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Location TBC |
Daniel Ortiz-Barrientos (UQ) | TBC | Hosted by E&ERC |
| Thurs 11 July 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Location TBC | TBC | TBC | Hosted by CMSI |
| Thurs 18 July 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Location TBC | TBC | TBC | Hosted by BEES |
| Thurs 25 July 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Location TBC |
TBC | TBC | Hosted by E&ERC |
| Thurs 1 August 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Location TBC | TBC | TBC | Hosted by CMSI |
| Thurs 8 August 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Location TBC | TBC | TBC | Hosted by BEES |
| Thurs 15 August 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Location TBC | TBC | TBC | Hosted by E&ERC |
| Thurs 22 August 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Location TBC |
TBC | TBC | Hosted by CMSI |
| TERM 3 | ||||
| Thurs 12 September 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Location TBC | TBC | TBC | Hosted by BEES |
| Thur 19 September 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Location TBC |
TBC | TBC | Hosted by E&ERC |
| Thurs 26 September 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Location TBC | TBC | TBC | Hosted by CMSI |
| Thurs 10 October 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Location TBC | TBC | TBC | Hosted by BEES |
| Thurs 17 October 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Location TBC | TBC | TBC | Hosted by E&ERC |
| Thurs 24 October 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Location TBC | TBC | TBC | Hosted by CMSI |
| Thurs 31 October 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Location TBC | TBC | TBC | Hosted by BEES |
| Thurs 7 November 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Location TBC | TBC | TBC | Hosted by E&ERC |
| Thurs 14 November 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Location TBC |
TBC | TBC | Hosted by CMSI |
| Thurs 20 November 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Location TBC | TBC | TBC | Hosted by BEES |
| Thurs 28 November 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Location TBC | TBC | TBC | Hosted by E&ERC |
| Thurs 5 December 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm, Location TBC |
TBC | TBC | Hosted by CMSI |
Past Seminars
2023
| TERM 1 2023 | |||
Date |
Time & location |
Speaker |
Title |
| Thurs 16 Feb 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, Mathews D | Jiasui (Irene) Li | Microbial symbiosis and host disease resistance in marine macroalgae |
| Fri 17 Feb 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, Mathews D | Erica Barlow | Interpreting the ancient fossil record & thinking about life ‘as we don’t know it’ |
| Fri 24 Feb 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, Mathews D | Adelaide Dedden and Harrison Eyck | E&ERC PhD Completion Seminar |
| Fri 10 Mar 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, Mathews D | Frank Seebacher | Responses to environmental change: plasticity and epigenetics |
| Fri 17 Mar 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, Mathews D | Uffe Nielsen | Altered rainfall regimes have wide ranging effects on ecosystem structure and function |
| Fri 24 Mar 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, Mathews D | Mariella Herbestein | Perspectives on behavioural ecology: from natural history to trait-based approaches at a landscape scale |
| Fri 31 Mar 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, Boral Theatre | Paul Hesse | Will rivers be smaller when the climate is hotter? |
| Fri 14 April 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, Mathews D | Anastasia Shavrova & Claudia Crowther | E&ERC PhD Completion Seminar |
| Fri 21 April 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, Boral Theatre | Bryce Kelly | Satellite- and Aircraft-Based Greenhouse Gas Measurements for Verifying National and Corporate Inventories |
| Fri 28 April 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, CLB2 | Zoe Xirocostas and Anna Lewis | E&ERC PhD Completion Seminar |
| TERM 2 2023 | |||
| Fri 2 June 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, Mathews D | Baptise Wijas and Joe Atkinson | E&ERC PhD Completion Seminar |
| Fri 9 June 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, Mathews D | Martin Van Kranendonk | On the trail of our ancestry: An African safari with a hominid twist |
| Fri 16 June 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, Mathews D | Dieter Hochuli | Reimagining the naturalist tradition to conserve and promote biodiversity in cities |
| Fri 23 June 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, Mathews D | Janette Boughman | Mate choice in the brain: Species differ in how male traits ‘turn on’ gene expression in female brains |
| Fri 30 June 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, Mathews D | Mark Elgar | Nothing is better than an undetected signal: selection pressures influencing chemical sensory morphology in insects |
| Fri 7 July 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, Mathews D | Nobuharu Inaba | Nature-based solution to control harmful algal blooms using seagrasses and macroalgae |
| Fri 14 July 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, Mathews D | Andrea Liebl | The effects of Gx(developmental)E in a cooperatively breeding species |
| Fri 21 July 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, Mathews D | Blake Dickson | Functional Adaptive Landscapes, their applications, and the evolution of limbs and terrestrial locomotion across the water-land transition |
| Fri 28 July 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, Mathews D | Claudia Coleine | Microbiomes from extreme environments: challenges to thrive in the most prohibitive conditions. |
| Fri 4 Aug 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, Mathews D | Eleonora Egidiq | Rhizosphere microbial communities and plant growth: insights from Australian native grasses |
| Fri 25 Aug 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, E19 Patricia O'Shane G04 (previously CLB 3) | Matt England | Projected slowdown of the ocean’s overturning circulation – plus tales of biological applications work from an ocean modeller |
| Fri 1 Sept 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, Boral Theatre | Jordan Gacutan & Dan Hewitt | CMSI PhD Completion Seminar |
| TERM 3 | |||
| Fri 15 Sep 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, Mathews D | Gregoire Mariethoz | Generating synthetic satellite observations |
| Fri 22 Sep 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, Mathews D | Fabio Zanini | Cell diversity across the tree of life, from 30,000 feet to microns |
| Fri 6 Oct 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, Mathews D | Hannah Dawson and Véronique Lago | Modelling connectivity and ocean circulation at the Antarctic margin (Hannah Dawson). FishSCOOP: an industry and research partnership to outsource ocean data (Véronique Lago) |
| Fri 13 Oct 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, Mathews D | Tim Barrows | Climate sensitivity of SE Australia during the last ice age |
| Fri 20 Oct 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, Mathews D | Lisa Schwanz | Environmental influences on sex and the evolution of sex-determining mechanisms |
| Fri 27 Oct 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, Mathews D | Brad Henderson & Tom Dunlop - UNSW Water Research Laboratory | Predicting mangrove and saltmarsh ecosystems extent in different estuaries – a lifecycle approach (Brad Henderson). Nature-based Solutions for estuaries: Overcoming design barriers to implementation (Tom Dunlop). |
| Fri 3 Nov 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, Mathews D | Damien Esquerre | Weapons, Invasions and Mountain Formation: What Drives the Evolution of Biodiversity? |
| Fri 10 Nov 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, Mathews D | Indrani Mukherjee | Trace element archives in deep time: Availability vs bioavailability |
| Fri 17 Nov 2023 | 3:00pm-4:00pm, Mathews D | Herbert Huppert (King's College Cambridge) | The effect of surface waves over coral reefs, leading to a suggestion of how to defend against tsunamis |